百年树人

It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom) / fig. a good education program takes a long time to develop / cf. 十年樹木,百年樹人|十年树木,百年树人

Characters and words in 百年树人

surname Bai

= + : Beelzebub enjoys preparing to allure a few mortals. Sitting on the throne in the airplane, he's waving a flute as a magic wand and enchanting one hundred white flags to look like one hundred one hundred 元 bills.
hundred / numerous / all kinds of

= + : Beelzebub enjoys preparing to allure a few mortals. Sitting on the throne in the airplane, he's waving a flute as a magic wand and enchanting one hundred white flags to look like one hundred one hundred 元 bills.
hundred years / century / lifetime
surname Nian
year / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + + : Nefertiti (ni) is having lunch (午) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Unfortunately they didn't have any cutlery left so she has to use a dinosaur bone (丨) and a flute (一) instead of fork and knife. It will take her a whole year (年) to finish her lunch this way.
grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年[nian2]
tree / CL:棵[ke1] / to cultivate / to set up

= + : Sheldon Shrimp cultivates a Christmas tree in the space station's bathroom. He is very happy that he found the right tree, just the one he imagined, and—in his mind—marks of the tree he imagined with a big green check mark.
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Robinson Crusoe (r-) is looking for snacks in the encampment's kitchen (-en2) when he suddenly spots Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man offers him a banana (丿), but Robinson Crusoe doesn't trust the present and pokes it with a finger (㇏).

Words with 百年树人

It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.

Sentences with 百年树人

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